How is that we understand better with examples.
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Examples show how abstractions work in practice. Examples are good to build intuitions around an abstraction. You often get introduced to topics through examples as they are probably familiar. Now you have a practical idea of what the topic is about. Without that initial idea the topic would be too vague to start building understanding. Examples aren’t required for learning but for building understanding they’re essential.
Yes this description is a bit too general so here is an example: I could tell you the general mathematics of distributions, but you don’t get why do we care when we have functions. So lets start with an example and point out the major difference. A function maps points to points but a distribution is like IQ, if you select an area under the curve that area is proportional to the number of people inside that IQ interval.
So as you can see giving an example makes concepts easier to grasp. Like if your math teacher telling you about functions with a certain definition but it might be difficult to imagine what kind of functions satisfies that criteria so of course you are given an example. And once you analyse the example you can start to understand why that definition is useful or special.
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